Harvard Square Business Association Considers Turning Tunnel Into Venue

WBZ NewsRadio’s James Rojas reports. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Denise Joson is with the Harvard Square Business Association. Her
job is to help rejuvenate the area. But since you
can't really expand it out of Cambridge, it's difficult to
build up.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
The next solution is to look down this tunnel.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
This piece here from about Mount Auburn Street down to
Bennett is completely abandoned.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
The section of Redline she's talking about has gone unused
for forty years. She thinks it's the perfect entertainment venue.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
One would say that's preposterous. What we say is it's
equally preposterous to have the tunnel already built and not
take the opportunity to examine its potential.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
She's hoping the city manager will rubber stamp already approved
funding to study the proposal. In the meantime, who Denise
dreams of performing in the tunnel one day. Bruce Springsteen
in Cambridge. James Rojas WBZ, Boston's news radio